Flashback: Scanners (andrew’s Choice)

Ah, andrew.   One of the glorious things about andrew is that not only do I get to chit chat about hockey (did you know I like other things outside of movies?!) with andrew, I get to chit chat about a variety of movies we both love.
One of these that popped up was Scanners.
I’m unapologetic about [...]

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#1462: Lost Horizon (Paul’s Choice)

What a shame.

The sad thing about Lost Horizon is that ten or so minutes of the film are missing. The score is intact, but through years of struggling to piece together surviving film, only ten minutes could not be recovered.  The result is a little jarring, but you have to respect the film preservationists who [...]

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#1461: Night of the Hunter (andrew/Scott’s Choice)

“Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand? The story of good and evil?”

In Depression-times, a man robs a bank out of desperation to provide for his family in the long-term.   Having killed two men doing so, he is immediately hunted down by the police, but not before he hides the [...]

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Flashback: Night of the Lepus (My Mom’s Choice)

Edited to Add: It figures my 100th post would be about this damnable movie.   Somewhere, my dad is laughing at me…in good fun, of course.
There’s a story with this one.
Years ago, when we were all smaller and shorter, my family always watched movies together. Usually my parents picked the movies, and every so [...]

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Flashback: Killer Klowns from Outer Space (Shawn’s Choice)

I love movies like this.   I love movies where you know, you just know, someone made something so perfectly awesomely bad on purpose.
How, you ask, is it so awesomely bad?
Let’s take it step by step:

The super stealthy clown tracking method:   Make your own bird dog animal balloon and have at it.

Okay, so these clowns like [...]

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#1460: The Warriors (Scott’s Choice)

I have a personal anecdote to share.   For a long time, The Warriors and I just did not get along.  I would rent it from the video store, only to have something crop up everytime I rented it.   With only the first fifteen minutes watched, I would trudge dutifully back to the video store to [...]

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#1459: Fantastic Planet (Piper’s Choice)

What a delightfully trippy movie.

Fantastic Planet is an animated movie that tells the story of two species: the giant Traags and the miniature Oms. The Oms are a put upon, abused sort of people who either live in some sort of freedom but absolute squalor or are kept by pets by the freaky looking [...]

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#1458: The Claim (Joseph B.’s Choice)

Color me astounded.

Winterbottom takes the same approach to The Claim that he did Wonderland; he takes a step back from the material and never subtly infuses his own message into the work; he lets the characters shine, good and bad, and he’s extremely sound as far as moving the camera goes.   I’ve never been to [...]

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#1457: Alien vs. Predator: Requiem

In between Reader’s Choice movies, I popped in Alien vs. Predator:  Requiem. Honestly, I don’t have anything witty to say about it.

Half the movie is so dark, you can’t even tell what’s going on (no, really).
The other half?
I felt like I would’ve had time better spent (and felt much more rewarded) if the moviemakers had [...]

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#1455: Noises Off! (Kevin’s Choice)

I realize that Kevin is currently on vacation, but hey, let’s do this anyways.

Noises Off! is a movie within a play.   We start off with the cast and director preparing for the very first show of a comedic play that will be touring, a play that starts out well but rapidly becomes tiresome due to [...]

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